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…showed last 75 words of 909 total…across the continent. It marks the end of the most extraordinary of all men who have ruled African countries in the first three decades of their independence. But the result of Banda's autocracy is that Malawi now lacks a strong civil society and a tradition of competitive politics, the two cornerstones of political democracy. It will take some time, therefore, for most ordinary Malawians to come to grips with the significant social and political change.